After Desire and I finished our little session of lust and fun, I carry her over to the still steaming bathtub and settle her in and then sit down myself. I feel so much better and relaxed now that I have all that stress out of my system, I miss my old boring and quiet life with my family already... hopefully once I kill that bloody demon's bastard of a brother I can try to have a life like that again... maybe even find a way home.

"Oh, Damien. That had to be the best rut I've had in years," Desire tells me before cuddling up beside me.

"I can say the same," I reply and extend my tongue back out to its half a foot long length while wiggling it into different angles. "Shtill didn't think my tongue wash thish long doe," I mumble around my tongue. It's something I discovered during our fun time.

"I sure am happy you found it out at least," she smirks at me with half lidded eyes as I retract my tongue.

"Yeah yeah, good for you," I reply with a smirk of my own and a roll of my eyes. "By the way, I haven't just gotten you pregnant have I?" I ask her with slight worry in my voice. Can I even get any demons pregnant?

"No, we succuponies can decide if we wish to get pregnant, helps us when we feed off the best kind of lust which is sex, since it just drips with testosterone and oestrogen. Same with incuponies, they decide if they want to release sperm to impregnate a demon as well. Makes us the number one demons to go to for a good time and relief without consequences," she replies with a shrug.

Well at least I don't have to worry about raising a kid yet... Wait, what does this make Desire and I now? "So, just gotta ask, but are we together or something now?" I ask her getting a confused expression from her.

"I'm yours to do as you wish with, you can rut me whenever you feel like it," she tells me. I don't think she understood my question.

"Okay, rephrasing. Do demons have relationships here?" I ask her.

"Sometimes the deamons or higher do, though we lesser demons are just bred like livestock for labour and soldiers," she tells me.

Wow, that's actually kinda depressing. "So you've never had a relationship before?" I ask her.

"No I haven't, and the last time I had sex was with my old master who was too rough and only cared about himself two years ago before he was killed and I escaped... what you did was so much better and I wouldn't mind doing it again soon," she tells me and licks my cheek again. "Why?" she then asks.

I glance at her and then look forward again, I've known Desire for the last two months and she's told me a lot about herself as I've told her about myself, she's basically been my best friend since I've been here. And despite her not being human, she’s very attractive, especially when she smiles sincerely with her hair covering her left eye.

"Well, we've known each other for two months, we even share the same bed... I guess I want to know if you'd like to be my girlfriend?" I ask her as I feel my stomach start to turn in nervousness, I haven't asked a girl out since my ex six years ago.

She stares at me with wide eyes. "You, a demonlord want me, a lesser demon as a mate?" she asks me with disbelief.

"What's wrong with that?" I ask confused at her shocked expression.

"Demonlords think themselves above mating with us lesser demons and only accept other demonlords or even archdemons. The fact you even rutted me is a surprise as I thought you would have rejected or even punished me as I'm so much weaker compared to you..." she replies and looks away with her ears folded down.

I frown at her and gently pull her chin to look at me. "You forget, I wasn't born a demonlord and was even weaker than you before I came here, I don't have their mindset and I find you attractive and fun to be around... You've helped me learn about demons and Tartarus as best you could these last two months. Without you I'd most likely still be wandering around the wastes and probably starved to death. You saved me out there, you have more value then you give yourself credit for," I tell her as tears start to show in her eyes.

I wipe her tears away and smile at her. "So, now that's out of the way. Would you like to be my girlfriend... or mate as you called it," I ask her again.

She slowly starts nodding which quickly picks up pace. "Yes, I'd love to be your mate," she replies and kisses me gently for the first time ever, I return the kiss as she starts to roam her hands over me.

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We washed each other off and I forgot I was covered in blood... yeah. Though that just seemed to excite her more.

We get dressed and I promised to get her some new clothes as all she has is that small and thin heart shaped bikini. I wonder how she would look in a black dress...

Once dressed and ready to go, I step out of my room to see a blushing Geneine sitting at her desk hidden mostly behind her wings.

"Geneine... are you alright?" I ask her.

She nodded and peeks over her wings. "I'm just f-fine, my lord... though you may wish to keep the noise down n-next time," she replies and I blush as well. Right, these walls aren't exactly soundproof.

"Noted... Well, I need you to gather a force of one-hundred demons to raid this Kigorian bastard. Because of that fucker we lost over thirty of our people and I'm going to make him suffer for it," I ask her with slight anger in my tone. I hear Desire let out a shaky breath but ignore her.

Geneine seems to calm down and nodded. "At once, my lord. I hope you make him suffer, two of the harpies we lost were dear friends of mine," she replies and leaves the manor to do as I asked.

I look at my right hand and think. 'How does my power work? Does it come out during a fight? Or do I have to will it to work?' I wonder to myself.

I close my eyes and focus on my hand as I remember the feeling of that bloodlust and desire to kill. I try to emulate it and will my scythe to form, I feel a pulse in my hand and energy gathering in my palm. I open my eyes to see Thanatos in my grip and I smirk, once again I feel the blade's thirst for souls echo throughout me.

"Don't worry my friend, when we find Kigorian you can feast on his soul," I say to my scythe which I can feel shiver in anticipation. Is my weapon alive? Or even sentient?

"I see you figured out how to will your weapon to yourself," Desire says and strokes the haft of my scythe, I can feel the blade shiver from the contact.

"So, before I head out, any advice on using my powers? Like can I shoot fireballs or balls of shadow?" I ask Desire while looking at my left hand.

"If you really have Val'ketoph's powers, then you're able to manipulate and travel in the Shadow Realm and conjure physical energy made of pure darkness. He was also a master of darkfire, a dark purple and black flame that can't be put out unless a stronger power is used on it," she tells me.

"I see, so how do imps use their fireballs?" I ask, maybe I can use their method to throw my own fireballs.

"They gather their demonic energy into their palms where they will it to ignite making their fire and then just throw it like a rock," she explains to me.

I will my energy into my left hand and grunt from the effort. Once done, I imagine it bursting into the flames Desire described and in a few seconds, I'm now holding a small black and dark purple flame in my palm.

"Whoa..." I mutter as I stare at the flames.

"Not bad, but I think you can do better. Still, a good first attempt," she tells me with a smile.

"Uh-huh, when I get back I'm going to practise with this a lot over the next few weeks, I'm sure you and Geneine can manage the Town's affairs while I’m gone," I reply and will the flame away, which dissipates into the air.

"Okay, good luck, Damien. You better come back without a scratch, I don't want my mate dying on the day I just got him," she says in a half teasing and serious tone.

"I'll be fine, I just have to take his soul, claim his demons, valuables, and free the arachnipony queen and come home for a nice hot dinner," I reply getting her to kiss me again.

"I'll get the cooks to make your favourite, blood apple pie with smoked waste worm sausages," she tells me.

My stomach already rumbles from the sound of it and I lick my lips. "Dammit, now I want to get this over with already," I reply and head towards the exit. When I first had waste worm sausages, I thought it would taste nasty, considering they look like giant brown maggots with lots of teeth, but it was surprisingly good.

I step outside and see the lesser demons gathering with weapons and armour, even a few of the demons I claimed are coming it seems. I walk over to Sitharis where she's wearing shitty armour and holding a spear. "You're coming with me?" I ask her.

She nodded in reply. "I am, Master. I wish to help free my queen from Kigorian's cruelty. He himself breeds with her to birth us as workers or soldiers... we're lucky if we even get to see our mother at times," she tells me with a frown.

"Very well, I could use a guide getting there and showing me where Kigorian and your queen are. By the way, how many demons live there?" I ask her.

"Three-hundred and fifteen, that included our raiding party of two-hundred and ten," she replies while adjusting her chestplate.

"I see, so we're facing just over a hundred. Is there a way to kill Kigorian without harming his demons? I want to claim as many of them as I can without killing them," I then ask her.

"You can challenge Kigorian to a winner takes all duel with no rules, as the name suggests, you kill him you get everything he owns, same should he kill you, but you shouldn’t need to worry about the demons as they’re workers, not soldiers," she tells me. "Thank you, by the way, for offering us a choice... I've never heard of a demonlord offering lesser demons a chance like this," she says with a genuine smile.

"Well, I'm not your typical demonlord. I treat my demons with respect and as equals, I even pay them for their services," I tell her with my own smile.

"I... see... then I believe I can safely say that the demons under Kigorian's rule will most likely wish to join you then. Our kind hides underground because the higher demons value us for our silk, but because of the way they treat us, we prefer our isolation," she replies and I find it amusing when she lifts her right back leg to scratch her abdomen quickly.

"Then you don't have to worry about that with me, your people may even start their own silk business in town if you'd like," I offer her.

"That... that sounds good actually..." she mutters and I leave her to her thoughts.

I look around to my gathered demons: some boarus, imps, succuponies, incuponies, felhounds, and some of the claimed arachniponies. "So we all ready to go then?" I ask them getting cheers in return. I then look back to Sitharis. "Care to lead the way my dear?" I ask her and she nodded.

With that we march out of town and towards my first raid.

It takes us seven hours of travel but we reach a slightly bigger town than mine, still same design with the rusted metal buildings just nearly twice as big. I think we'll have to strip the buildings of their sheets and drag them back to Felfire for building more homes.

I take a deep breath and shout out very damn loudly. "KIGORIAN! I CHALLENGE YOU TO A WINNER TAKES ALL DUEL!" My voice echoes throughout the wastes and I cough as that made my throat sore.

I see demons gathering around the town's entrance and a young three foot tall surprised looking arachnipony cautiously walks over to Sitharis.

"Sitharis? What's going on... where are the others and who are they?" she asks her.

Sitharis looks to me and then back to the arachnipony. "I have a new master now, Thrasha. He's a demonlord who is... surprisingly kind," Sitharis tells her and shows her my mark on her neck.

"What!? B-But that means... the raid failed?" she asks and looks sad and afraid.

"Yes, some of our friends, brothers, and sisters died in the battle, but Master Damien here offered those of us who accepted to join him instead of dying," Sitharis replies and looks back at me.

I walk over to this Thrasha and kneel down with a smile. "I'm here to claim everything this Kigorian owns, that includes his demons and your Queen. I'm offering you and the rest a chance to live as equals in my town of Felfire as citizens, not as slaves," I tell her.

Her eyes widen as more demons gather around with curiosity. I guess they're not attacking since they're not soldiers but workers.

"Who dares challenge the great deamon Kigorian!" a large brown coloured ten foot tall demon with a head of an octopus, top half of a man and the lower half of an octopus shouts out as he exits the town gate. He's wearing some really nice clothes covering up his waist and torso. Hmmm, I should take this wall and gate for Felfire for added defence, the lack of a wall is a fatal flaw I wish to see fixed soon.

"I do," I reply and walk through the gathered demons gripping my scythe tightly as it starts to crave the deamon's soul.

"You!? What can a deformed incupony like you do!?" he yells insulted. Why do the higher demons think I'm an incupony? I look nothing like them...

"Yes, me. I am demonlord Damien Jackson, and I'm here to claim this town along with everything and every demon in it, including your soul," I reply and hold my scythe out to my side horizontally where the blade coats itself in a thin mist of shadow. "I've already claimed some of your demons from the raid you sent against me," I say with a grin.

"WHAT!?" he yells outraged that I took his demons. "I will have your head on a pike and eat your body you filthy bastard!" he yells and pulls out two long whips from behind his waist and quickly swings one out at me. I manage to evade it but an unfortunate imp wasn't as lucky and gets his left arm shredded by the razors coating the whip.

I glare at the deamon for injuring one of my demons and use my wings to lunge at him quickly, he recoils from my sudden assault and I slash at his chest. His recoil saves him from being impaled but still leaves a large gash through his robe and chest as purple blood seeps out of his wound.

"How dare you injure me and damage my robe! I will make you suffer slowly before ending your miserable existence!" he roars out in anger before swinging at me again. I reach out and grab the whip with my left hand and use my scythe to cut off at least three metres of it.

I hiss in pain as I toss the piece of the whip away, the razors had cut open my hand but the cuts quickly close and I lick the blood off my palm.

"That all? Jidaan put up a better fight than this," I taunt him and roll my neck getting a few cracks.

"You slayed Jidaan!? Impossible! Even I would not be able to take him head on without a strategy!" Kigorian says in surprise that I damaged his weapon and to my statement.

"Yes, I did. Now stop resisting and surrender your soul peacefully, or I'll make you suffer slowly as I cut you apart piece by piece before ripping out your soul," I threaten him with a malicious grin, my bloodlust and urge to kill rising again. "Then again, I wouldn't mind if you resisted... I've been looking forward to a good fight," I then comment offhandedly.

I hear the sound of teeth grinding and I raise an eyebrow at him. 'Huh, I thought he'd have his mouth where his ass would be just like an octopus... oh well,' I think to myself.

He swings his other whip without warning and I jump to the side quickly, this time without tumbling like I did against Jidaan. I will a darkfire flame in my left hand and like throwing a rock, I toss the fireball at him hitting the tip of one of his tentacles. He cries out in pain as the flame slowly travels up the limb burning whatever it touches to ash.

He tries to put it out on the ground but the flame refuses to die and it has now burnt off half of the limb, he then resorts to wrapping the base of his limb with his whip and saws his tentacle off with a spray of purple blood and a scream of pain. The limb falls to the ground and turns to ash as the flame reaches the end.

"I WILL DESTROY YOU FOR YOUR TRANSGRESSION!" he screams in rage and swings his whip again making it wrap around my left arm, the razors digging into my flesh and gets stuck.

'OW! Oh mother fucker is asking for it now,' I think as I grip the whip in my left hand again. I then pull making him fly through the air as he's too stupid to let go and he slams into the ground with a squishy thud. I roar out in pain as the razors dig in deeper but my rage and bloodlust push through the pain and I lift him up again before slamming him down a second time.

I repeat this five more times before he finally lets go and slams into the town's wall. My arm is shredded and dripping blood but after a few seconds I manage to rip the whip off as my arm hangs limply by my side, it's taking longer to heal but that's fine. I walk over to Kigorian who's stunned and looking out of it.

I raise my scythe with one arm and cut off all of his tentacles from just below his waist. "GGRRAAAAHHHHH!" he roars out in pain which snaps him out of his stunned state.

"Oh? Still awake? Well it seems I'm the winner of this little duel, now I hereby claim your town, your valuables, and your demons," I tell him before slashing open his gut, making his innards spill out. I then raise my scythe up again.

"Damn you! DAMN YOU TO THE PITS OF-" he yells but I cut him off by impaling his heart. He gurgles as Thanatos happily starts absorbing his soul, making the deamon shrivel up before crumbling into ash.

I hiss in pain as my arm finishes healing and I flex my fingers. Damn, my sleeve is totally destroyed...

"He won..." a demon says as Sitharis walks over to me.

"You did it... our mother is free!" she yells in joy and hugs me with her arms and her two front legs.

I chuckle and pat her on the head. "You're welcome, now let's go and get her. We have a lot of work ahead of us," I tell her getting a nod from her.

She guides me through the town to Kigorian's manor where in the basement is a white naked arachnipony with a large swollen abdomen chained to the floor. Her hair is light grey and tied up in a ponytail, her legs are all spread out and unable to move as her arms are chained to the ceiling.

"So this is your queen?" I ask Sitharis, which gets the queen's attention.

"Who are you?" she demands with a glare.

"My name is Damien Jackson, and I'm now technically your new master," I tell her and walk up to her.

"New master?" she asks confused but still aggressive.

"It's okay, mother. He killed Kigorian and is offering us a place to live as equals," Sitharis explains to her excitedly.

The queen stares at me wide eyed. "How did you defeat kigorian? Even I a deamon were no match for him," she asks.

"I'm not a deamon, I'm a demonlord," I tell her making her eyes go even wider.

"If he is dead... then I can dispose of these tainted eggs before they hatch," she says and grunts. I turn away as she begins forcefully laying her eggs, followed by the sound of her crushing them.

"Was that really necessary?" I ask her.

"I will not spawn any more of his bastard hatchlings..." she hisses out at me.

"Fair enough," I reply and use my scythe to cut her chains off. "Here's the deal, I'm raising an army to eventually kill Val'hades, I'm offering you a chance to live as equals with my demons so you don't have to hide anymore," I tell her as some arachniponies come in with what appears to be a black dress.

The queen puts the dress on and smiles at her children. "And what do we get from this offer besides a place to live?" she asks.

"You can run your own business with your silk, selling clothes and other things," I reply.

She looks sceptical and hums in thought. "I've seen his town, mother. His demons trust him and are actually happy," Sitharis tells her as well.

The queen looks from her to me and narrows her eyes. "Very well, then I only have one condition. You will fertilise my eggs when I am ready to lay them, the seed of a demonlord will make them stronger no doubt," she tells me with a straight face.

I blink a few times and raise an eyebrow. "Pardon?" I ask dumbly.

"I said you will fertilise my eggs when I am ready to lay. Agree to this and treat us well and I shall agree to join your demon horde," she tells me with a smirk.

I frown and sigh. 'Great, I just get a girlfriend and now I have to tell her I have to fuck another woman just to keep her in town... Why do I have to be the nice guy instead of just telling her to do it...' I grumble to myself and look back at the queen. "Bah!" I yell in frustration, but having an arachnipony queen on my side is too good to pass up. "Fine! But it's solely to fertilise your eggs got it? I already have a mate," I tell her and she nodded.

"That is acceptable. My name is Queen Arachne by the way," she replies and holds her right hand out.

"Yeah, nice to meet ya," I grumble shaking her hand before making my way out of the manor as I dismiss my scythe. I see all the demons both mine and the others gathered outside. "Right then, first things first, I'm going to claim you all so line up and get your bites," I tell them and they line up. One by one I mark them including Queen Arachne and then order them to gather as much valuables as they can carry to take back. I even drag a large cart full of decans and valuables myself.

Once ready, we march back to Felfire where they deposit the large amount of valuables into my vault and I share out a fair portion for them to start living off, I then order teams to head back out and begin stripping the town for resources and materials to build more homes here, including the wall and gate.

"Damien!" I hear Desire call out and tackle me in a hug. I chuckle and hug her back.

"Told ya I'll be back," I tell her and smile.

She then glares at the shredded sleeve of my coat. "What happened," she demands.

I tell her of the battle and how the whip shredded my arm. "So now I just need to get this repaired. Fortunately we have arachniponies with us now so I can ask them to fix it," I reply and hear a cough behind me.

I look behind me and see Queen Arachne. "Don't forget our deal, I'll be ready to lay my next clutch in a month's time," she tells me and crosses her arms.

"Yes I know," I reply getting a frown from Desire.

"What deal?" she asks me.

"I have to fertilise her eggs when she's ready to lay them and she'll provide us with silk," I reply with an irritated expression. I feel like I'm cheating on my new girlfriend already...

"Oh, is that all? Okay," she replies nonchalantly.

What? "You're not upset?" I ask her confused.

"It'll help increase our numbers and will be sure to make strong arachniponies with the blood of a demonlord... I don't see a problem," she tells me and I just shake my head.

"Fuck this, I'm going to take a nap after I wash the blood off me," I reply as I take my coat off and hand it to Arachne. "Would you please fix my coat for me?" I ask her.

She takes it and sighs. "Very well, I do owe you for freeing me and my children. It'll be ready by tomorrow," she tells me. "Now, where shall I be staying for now?" she asks with a raised brow.

“I have a servants quarters built in my manor, you can have one of the spare rooms until we can get you your own place built. Desire can show you the way," I reply and walk off to my manor.

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